Conferences

Trainspace, an Australian-based company, recently conducted a trial of BigBlueButton as part of the Australian 2012 Emerging Technology Trials, a program under the government’s National VET (Vocational Education and Training) E-learning Strategy (Strategy).

The full report of the BigBlueButton trail available is available on-line. It contains a good analysis of using BigBlueButton, along with survey results such as asking the effectiveness of BigBlueButton as an educational training tool.

The report also gave a number of recommendations for improving BigBlueButton (with our comments on each recommendation):

Keyboard text entry into whiteboard – This improvement is on the road-map (and we’re working on getting it into the next release)

Break out rooms – It’s not planned for the next release (0.81), but it`s also on the roadmap.

More instructions at login regarding use of headsets removal of noise when headsets not plugged in -Agreed!

Polling - Seneca College recently implemented a polling module that we working on integrating.

Big thanks Trainspace for obtaining funding for this trail. We think their report provides a valuable resource for anyone considering using or deploying BigBlueButton.

About The Project

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on mac, unix, or PC computers. In the true sense of open source, we invite you to try out and participate in our project.